A movie worth remembering and the helplessness in my heart

Jordy 2022-08-04 10:12:48

A hotel owner who always lives in his memories, a hotel manager who was found adulterous by his wife, a director of the catering department who was fired because of racial discrimination, two college students who were new to drugs and hated the Vietnam War, and one was seen from RFK A black student of National Hope, a humble Mexican waiter, a drunken female singer, a female college student trying to save her fiance by marriage, an old couple who has been in a 7-year itch. . There are more, 22, who are they? One thing in common is that they both witnessed the assassination of Robert Francis Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel on June 6, 1968. Everyone's life changed on that day because of this election, because of RFK, because of the Vietnam War, because of the United States, this selflessness and compassionate country. History cannot be replayed and replayed like a documentary, even if you shout, even if you roar, even if you cry, it just continues to flow by your side so coldly. Should we lament the insignificance of individuals in the long river of history, or should we bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again....

There are so many things worth remembering in this movie. Take a look at these names: Anthony Hopkins; Helen Hunt; William H. Macy; Martin Sheen; Laurence Fishburne; Demi Moore; Sharon Stone; Elijah Wood; Harry Belafonte. . five star cast. Remember Helen Hunt teased: god has a sense a humor. Remember the tall Laurence Fishburne bent over to pay tribute to the little Mexican waiter: a chivalrous act, indeed. Remember that Martin Sheen’s focused and sincere eyes said: You are now. You and I are more than the stuff, more than the things in our lives. Somewhere between our things and our stuff is us. I don't want to lose us. Remember the look in Hopkins' eyes when they heard RFK's assassination, their weak eyes. .

Movies are dreams, the immersion and exile of self-consciousness. Few movies make people feel so powerless. Borrow from Charles Dickens: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....

Suddenly, it all comes to a question to the end: where we are?

Let me be in the golden age, the sound of slience. Remember what RFK said:
Our lifes in this planet is too short. The work to be done is too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in this land of ours. Of course, we cannot banish it with a program, nor with a resolution, but we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our bothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life, that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment that they can. Surely, this bond of common fate, surely this bond of common goals can begin to teach us something. Surely we can learn at least to look around of those of us, of our fellow man, and surely we can begin to work a little harder, to bind up the wounds among us and to become, in our hearts, brothers and countrymen once again.

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Bobby quotes

  • Fisher: Why do you want to get stoned?

    Jimmy: We want to get stoned, because it feels good, man.

    Fisher: Bingo, because it feels good! You want to get stoned, because it feels good! Right?

    Cooper: Right!

    Fisher: Wrong!

    Cooper: Why is that wrong?

    Fisher: Because it's a cop out...

    Jimmy: Ok, then can you explain to us why for what other reason than the fact it feels good, do we want to get stoned, man?

    Fisher: Because it's our way, of getting closer, to god.

    Fisher: That is what you're looking for; except for you didn't know it, until this minute.

  • Edward Robinson: Let's send the brown man back across the border.

    Miguel: We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us.